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...Income Tax Publicity. The Socialists demanded that article 58, making it obligatory for Frenchmen to declare the amount of their incomes to the tax collector, should be debated first...
...objects are not segregated in race divisions but hung together in a harmonious whole to carry out "the idea of international sympathy." There were studies of a cow, a cat, a goose, and a donkey by Jeanne Poupelet; compositions by such Frenchmen as Derain, Andre, Rouault, Aristide Maillol; by Augustus John and Jacob Epstein; by George Luks, Jo Davidson, Childe Hassam, Gertrude Whitney and Robert W. Chanler. The metropolitan critics, loyal patriots all, generously discussed the merits of the U. S. paintings: "Jazz," an experiment in abstract form by Man-Ray, an American living in Paris; a picture by Edward...
From the humanitarian standpoint of the hundred forgiving Frenchmen and the hundred forgiving Englishmen who have petitioned to absolve Germany from the war guilt imposed on her in the Versailles Treaty, it is easy to see why a reapportionment of such guilt is desirable. From the political standpoint of Germany herself, who wants to capitalize these expressions of compassion in an effort to regain her colonies taken from her on grounds of her guilt, the same desirability is evident...
...talent as a poet is not open to question among Frenchmen, who look to L'Academic française as their arbiter of culture. Several times that august body has appointed him its laureate. The thing is on record as a matter of fact-which impresses no people more than the French...
...first glance he seems one . . . with his yellow skin, his saddle-nose between prominent cheekbones, and his Tartar moustache . . . a bully out of Brittany . . . an all too aged Cyrano . . . sitting by the fireside, in his peasant boots and grey suede gloves . . . uttering harsh words of scorn . . . the Prussianest of Frenchmen! . . . I could show you letters of German generals and princes who sigh: 'If only we had a German Clémenceau...